Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aad38459d1371b04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-11 20:10:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b137893705510044d1980d66f6bd1899 SHA-1: 6b33dbae459635a221ec4ac97c7da7c467e8b9f0 SHA-256: aad38459d1371b044669cbf8d3084360e9cd71b62535ca4f1b02c4627fb0f557
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to external resources, with a high-confidence heuristic identifying a link to a compromised WordPress upload directory. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to deliver a secondary payload or phishing content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a downloader or redirection mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://xn--c1aejbdnke.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gurijixilogofozew.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kirsanov-maslo.ru/uploads/sabarepigutidozomebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.com/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/18185102896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businesslegalgroup.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/47541464149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simondaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60111460614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6b871011be23056a957848389da340b/nanijedemovidatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/jajovuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advocaatindex.nl/images/uploads/97670301581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elisa5888.com/shopadmin/upload/files/xodisoxupijesise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__613AF8FE514E7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.com/userfiles/file/dupewalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ed2501e421a088247b58421c2f5bf91/ramejap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariocigliano.com/userfiles/files/69923574903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/161301ee842f72---18883741712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://problemconsulting.com/img/download/files/fobizer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/50483149441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paradigma.bg/uf/file/43511811326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vhssirimpanam.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62711001457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grgct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pajoweridilivijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5493155ea8c900ea50f802fa61a08b26/taletoxusodagokasevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadapremiumlubes.com/survey/userfiles/files/31977489141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/guwoxewidatatuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=screen+recorder+made+in+india+apk+downloadPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dc8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC8F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A1 19012 bytes
SHA-256: 797158a5889243f913448a81540d5c75b6124b7572fd2b68a3e11520323c8dea
font_02_sfnt_off000125a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125A8 10664 bytes
SHA-256: e4295491907224e14ba81b390e2cefba27e8236e49557a437647688a89abe333